WOODWIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodwind mean? 

• WOODWIND (noun)
  The noun WOODWIND has 1 sense:

1. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

  Familiarity information: WOODWIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODWIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wood; woodwind; woodwind instrument

Hypernyms ("woodwind" is a kind of...):

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)

Meronyms (parts of "woodwind"):

finger hole (one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it)

thumbhole (the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodwind"):

beating-reed instrument; reed; reed instrument (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)

flute; transverse flute (a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown)